Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.

My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies

Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

There is a polish for everything that takes away rust, and the polish for the heart is the remembrance of God.

If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

The world is my country,all mankind are my brethren,and to do good is my religion.

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille